Gustavo Alarcón Herrera Assumes Chilpancingo Mayorship
Alarcón’s swearing-in comes just days after Chilpancingo Mayor Alejandro Acros was found murdered on Sunday, Oct. 6
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Chilpancingo Mayor Killed After Five Days in Office
Alejandro Arcos’ killing comes just days after the murder of Chilpancingo’s Secretary of Government, Francisco Tapi
Read moreChilpancingo Bishop Located After Kidnapping
Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Rosa Icela Rodríguez said National Anti-Kidnapping Coordination would aid in the investigation into Rangel’s abduction
Read moreGuerrero Church Leaders Propose Anti-Violence Pact with Local Cartels
The state bishops indicated that the region’s cartel leaders seemingly refused the truce due to an unwillingness to cede territory
Read moreLocal Protestors, Organized Crime Wreak Havoc across Chilpancingo
Following the murders of five public transport drivers in Chilpancingo over the weekend, violence peaked in the Guerrero capital on Monday as thousands of local protestors stormed the streets and penetrated state government buildings
Read moreMexican Zookeeper Grills Dwarf Goats, Trades Watusis for Microwave
The current whereabouts of the Watusis and zebra are unknown
Read moreLos Tequileros Cartel Claims Responsibility for Guerrero Massacre
By MARK LORENZANA The criminal group Los Tequileros claimed responsibility for the attacks on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero’s municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, where its mayor — Conrado Mendoza of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — and at least 17 other people were killed. Through a video shared on social
Read moreThe Little Town that Could, and Did, and Then Didn’t, and Now Wants to Again
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel
Read moreFifteenth Journalist Killed This Year in Mexico
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Reporter and columnist Fredid Román Román was gunned down as he left his home in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, on Monday, Aug. 23, making him the 15th journalist to be killed in Mexico this year. Román Román was a reporter for various media outlets in the coastal Mexican state of Guerrero, as well as the owner and editor of
Read moreThe Night of the Iguala Massacre
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico City’s streets were filled with demonstrations this past week calling for the “appearance, dead or alive” of 43 normal school students who went missing on the “night of Iguala,” Sept. 26-27, 2014, in the southern state of Guerrero. Four years later, there is one similarity between now and then. In 2014, President Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN)
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